Weba familiar pattern played out in the hours following tuesday's bridge collapse in baltimore: Webin the hours and days that followed, a barrage of baseless claims flooded social media, pointing fingers at various unlikely culprits and triggering a wave of misinformation. Webeven before most americans woke up tuesday morning to news of the collapse of the francis scott key bridge in baltimore, wild conspiracy theories about what supposedly had “really” happened. Weboutlandish conspiracy theories circulated on x after a containership collided with a major bridge in maryland, causing it to collapse, early tuesday morning. The ship hit a supporting structure.